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and that additional legislative powers are necessary. The Committee are quite
satisfied that serious nuisance does arise from this source, but before recommending
the Board to take any steps for obtaining an amendment of the law,
they are desirous of ascertaining the views of the several Vestries and District
Boards of the Metropolis on the subject, especially as the Committee understand
that in some districts the Local Authority has succeeded in effecting the
removal of offensive substances without nuisance.
" The Committee have, therefore, instructed me to request your Board to
be good enough to furnish the following information :—
1. Whether nuisance is experienced in your district in the collection of
offensive material, and in its conveyance through the streets, and, if
so, the nature and extent of the nuisance.
2. If your Board have taken any steps for preventing nuisance from this
source, and, rf so, what steps, and with what results.
3. Under what statutory provisions you have acted, and if you consider
such provisions adequate to the purpose of preventing nuisance.
" The Committee will be glad to receive any information which your Board
may be good enough to afford them during the present month, as they propose
to report on the subject early in December.
I am, c&c.,
J. E. WAKEFIELD,
Clerk to the Board."
Recognizing the importance of the communication, I made
a Special Report on the subject (17th November) dealing with
the subject, as follows :—
" Nuisance is experienced in this Parish in ' the collection
of offensive material, and in its conveyance through the
streets and in its storage prior to removal.
"Fish (and Poultry) Offal.—In regard to this refuse, perhaps
the most offensive of all, the arrangements appear to be
wholly unsatisfactory arising in large measure from the fact that
there is no systematic collection of it. The fishmongers
experience much trouble in getting rid of it, and cannot place
dependence on the collectors, who, nevertheless, are paid for
their sei vices. The offal appears to be collected in part for
boiling-down for pigs' focod; it is also removed in manure
carts, then presumably, finding it is way on to the land. As a